Similar words: somber, umbrella, somberly, atom bomb, umbra, embryo, embroil, umbrage. Meaning: adj. 1. grave or even gloomy in character 2. lacking brightness or color; dull.
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61 The hospice movement, in its care of the terminally ill, is the living recognition of these sombre facts.
62 He was sitting before the log fire, his Armagnac untouched, his face in repose sombre.
63 Years of committee work and hours spent on panels in Whitehall have given him a studious and sombre air.
64 He was startled out of this sombre reflection by the sudden awareness that something was Not Quite Right.
65 It was not until half way through the sombre reception that doctors told Phil's anguished family he would survive.
66 My uncle wore a flannel suit,[http://sentencedict.com/sombre.html] a spotless white shirt and a tasteful but sombre tie.
67 The overall feeling is sombre despite the contrast provided by the dancing putti on the cornice.
68 Nina faced a succession of sombre gentleman's wear - black evening suits, heavy overcoats.
69 It seems that the staff were inclined to regard the women as light relief from the sombre business of teaching science.
70 Their attire was a mixture of the sombre and seaside wear.
71 In the Allegretto the music begins in the sombre low register and gradually rises through the octaves.
72 Three or four pine trees created a sombre atmosphere in the evening sun.
73 Clara was full of a sombre preconception.
74 The Bank of England has delivered a sombre warning.
75 Accordingly, the crowd was sombre and grave.
76 The next day dawned sombre and gloomy.
77 And a sombre, but yet a studied magnificence.
78 The day was chill and sombre.
79 We were at a sombre little party that evening.
80 dressed in sombre shades of grey and black.
81 Oppenheimer looked around with large sombre eyes.
82 As the death toll grew, there were poignant scenes at Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire as five coffins draped with the union flag arrived at RAF Lyneham and were met by sombre crowds on the town's streets.
83 When we played in the street the houses had grown sombre.
84 He repeated Cosette's name for whole nights in the melancholy loquacity of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony.
85 Mr Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre spirits.
86 In the sombre wars of modern democracy chivalry finds no place.
87 Already , at four o'clock, the sombre hue of night was thickening the air.
88 It has become a sombre and speechless load upon the senses.
89 Even as court fashion took another turn towards flamboyance, the sombre three-piece look endured in smart society.
90 The light of a laugh never came to brighten their sombre and wicked countenances.